{"id":8019,"date":"2014-02-25T15:47:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T14:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.morh.hr\/u-s-assistant-secretary-of-defense-visits-mod\/"},"modified":"2017-10-08T18:34:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T16:34:21","slug":"u-s-assistant-secretary-of-defense-visits-mod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morh.hr\/en\/u-s-assistant-secretary-of-defense-visits-mod\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense visits MoD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The two senior defence officials discussed the security and defence topics of mutual interest, with special prominence given to\u00a0 continued defence co-operation in the domains of joint training events, exercises, participation in operations and the use of the U. 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The two sides discussed a number of topics relevant for the regional and global security (e.g. the security and political situation in the South-East Europe, the regional defence co-operation and the current situation in Ukraine and the Middle East respectively) and highlighted the importance of consistent engagement in the stabilisation and reconstruction of the post-2014 Afghanistan, following the completion of ISAF.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The topics on the agenda of the forthcoming NATO summit were considered too,\u00a0 emphasising the importance of participaiton in the Smart Defence Initiative, the relations with partner countries (particularly the South-east Europe aspirant countries) and the &#8220;Open Door Polic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Secretary Chollet commended Croatia&#8217;s achievement following a most demanding transition, and the position it has acquired as the regional \u201cexporter of security\u201c and a country to serve as model to others. He also praised the strong U.S.-Croatia partnership and the commitment to continue developing the defence co-operation. <br \/>The Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs is a senior U.S. Department of Defense official responsible for the security strategy and politics related to Europe (including NATO), the Middle East and Africa, as well as for the U.S. programmes of security co-operation sustained with with the regions.<\/p>\n[nggallery id=1348]\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense visits MoD<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Derek Chollet, on Monday, 24 February 2014 visited the Croatian Ministry of Defence and met with the Croatian Defence Minister Ante Kotromanovi\u0107<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4698,"featured_media":36914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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